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Sponge could revolutionise spill clean-up

A NEW sponge-like material that can absorb up to 90 times its own weight in spilled oil, that can then be squeezed out and reused, could become a vital part of oil and gas company's toolkits in dealing with oil spills.

Sponge could revolutionise spill clean-up

It could make dealing with oil spills on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon or Montara disasters considerably easier.   Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have...

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